Biology:Megatibicen

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Short description: Genus of true bugs

Megatibicen
Megatibicen dorsatus P1210503a.jpg
Megatibicen dorsatus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
Genus: Megatibicen
Sanborn & Heath, 2016
Megatibicen pronotalis

Megatibicen is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, with about 10 described species.[1][2][3] Until 2016, these species were included in the genus Tibicen (now genus Lyristes Horvath, 1926)[4] and then briefly in Neotibicen. The species formerly of genera Ameritibicen Lee, 2016 and Gigatibicen Lee, 2016 are now considered species of Megatibicen Sanborn & Heath, 2016.[5]

Species

These 10 species belong to the genus Megatibicen:[1]

Data sources: i = ITIS,[6] c = Catalogue of Life,[7] g = GBIF,[2] b = Bugguide.net[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sanborn, Allen F.; Heath, Maxine S. (2016). "Megatibicen n. gen., a new North American cicada genus (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Cryptotympanini)". Zootaxa (Magnolia Press) 4168 (3): 577. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4168.3.10. PMID 27701330. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4168.3.10. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Megatibicen". https://www.gbif.org/species/9260229. Retrieved 2018-04-05. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Megatibicen Genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/1342996. Retrieved 2018-04-05. 
  4. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. "Opinion 2475 (Case 239) – Tibicina Kolenati, 1857 and Lyristes Horvath, 1926 (Insecta, Hemiptera): usage conserved by the suppression of Tibicen Berthold, 1827; Cicada Linnaeus, 1758 (Insecta, Hemiptera): usage conserved by designation of Cicada orni Linnaeus, 1758 as the type species". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 78: 138–141. doi:10.21805/bzn.v78.a032. https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/article/view/70708. Retrieved 25 February 2022. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sanborn, Allen F.; Heath, Maxine S. (2017). "Priority and synonymy of some North American cicada genera (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Cryptotympanini)". Zootaxa (Magnolia Press) 4243: 377–382. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4243.2.8. PMID 28610155. 
  6. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". https://www.itis.gov/. Retrieved 2018-04-05. 
  7. "Browse Megatibicen". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/5d5d9f0aa6cf7b4361553ace7a733e8e. Retrieved 2018-04-05. 

Further reading

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q55000214 entry